User talk:Dellant

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A suggestion

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John H. Parker

• The link you've created at the John Parker disambiguation page seems an unlikely article title. Do you have plans to creat an article for this person? Deb (talk) 11:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
  Already done, see John Henry Parker (General).Dellant (talk) 22:46, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

USS Texas (1892)

You do realize that the ship's deck log is a primary source (see WP:RS) and it also fails WP:V as it is not commonly available? Several of your edits will be fixed in recognition of this.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:43, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
See Venzon, Anne, General Smedley Darlington Butler: Letters of a Leatherneck 1898-1931, Greenwood Publishing Co, (1992), ISBN 0275941418, p. 8 - this irrefutably a secondary source that contains the same information as the ship's log concerning the USS Texas's 6mm Lee M1892 Colt-Browning machine guns and their disposition to the Marine Corps during the Guantanamo landings.Dellant (talk) 22:51, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Henry Kloss

Perhaps you didn't know that you are not allowed to copy the contents of a magazine or newspaper article New York Times into a Wikipedia article, as you did at Henry Kloss. That is a copyright violation. But you can read the article and use the information in it to make your addition, while referencing the article in question. --Blainster (talk) 23:38, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
----You have me confused with someone else. I did not insert ANY magazine OR newspaper article into the HK wiki article - it was already there. All I did was attempt to add additional information without altering the newspaper article that was already present.Dellant (talk) 22:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit summary

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Removing Speedy at Donald George Mackay

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Thank you for the information, I have followed these instructions in creating the article.Dellant (talk) 22:54, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Orlando Ward edit

Could you save me a bit of library work and let me know if the information in the Ambrose cited here indicates that Patton himself spoke to Ward about this "policy" or only that Eisenhower made statements about it to senior commanders? I think it important to characterize the relief appropriately: that it might be consistent with the policy is one thing and that it was done with the policy in mind is another - this is an important distinction. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 22:47, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

The Ambrose cite contains only the contents of Eisenhower's original warning that generals were expendable. Eisenhower had a habit of penning private messages stressing behaviors or policies he wished to emphasize, even to generals down at the divisional level. I can't find the added references anymore on Patton's reference to Ward about Eisenhower's reminder that generals were also expendable. My recollection is that I had two sources for the material, and one was deleted when all references to this communication were apparently stricken. There seems to be little doubt that Patton would have relieved Ward on his own - if one is to believe the frustration expressed in Patton's diary, not to mention his constant prodding of Ward. Nevertheless, Eisenhower's note to Patton can be viewed as a clear signal that there was to be no more agonizing over the careers of subordinate commanders if they had lost the confidence of their superiors - in other words, Eisenhower was not going to tolerate another Fredendall, and he expected corps and divisional commanders to behave in the same firm manner.

Besides the original missive from Eisenhower to Patton, the only other reference I can find now is the March 12 1943 letter from Eisenhower to Ward, in which the former urged Ward to deal firmly with commanders who would not obey orders: "Don't ever be afraid to use the iron inside the glove if it has to be done."Dellant (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I took the liberty of using the wiki : instead of the html br - pardon (and revert) if you prefer the br.

The changes have taken care of my main objection, thank you! I would prefer the association of Eisenhower's policy to the Patton-Ward situation be made in the source, but that's not something I would push.

Have you tried looking through the article history for the sources? --John (User:Jwy/talk) 19:59, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Edits

Hello. As mentioned above, please use an edit summary when making edits. This helps other editors understand your justification for making the changes and might answer any questions that other editors may have about your edits. Also, please don't use the minor edit checkbox unless the edit is truly minor. I see that some of your edits are minor (spelling or grammar mistakes) but many are not minor. See WP:MINOR for details. Thanks. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 23:58, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Portuguese Colonial War

Hello Dellant: as you have now been editing this article, I wonder whether Lusophone Africa is of a more permanent interest for you? I myself have been working on this domain for several decades, but am a relative newcomer to WP, so that I am still looking around for people with whom to join forces. Overall, I think the articles in this area often leave much to desire - or are even simply unacceptable. Aflis (talk) 20:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

• Hi, this particular article is a monster. I was trying to clean it up a bit and put some of the more incomprehensible passages into understandable English. The tone or balance of a particular article is harder to judge, but I try to write objectively and evenhandedly and not to use pejorative language, i.e. I don't title insurgents as 'terrorists' nor native soldiers fighting on the side of the government as 'collaborators'. Partisan sources on both sides are easy to come by on these topics, so I try to resist any urge towards melodrama.Dellant (talk) 14:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree, it is a monster, in different ways. Objectivity is in fact one major problem - but another one is a sometimes blatant lack of solid knowledge. Comparable problems exist for Angolan War of Independence. Hence again my question: is this just a temporary concern of yours, or will you work more permanently in/on this subject area? Aflis (talk) 16:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

• Well, I will do my best. I tend to return to the same topics over time. Don't you think I'm doing a good bit? I started on this article years ago with a greatly expanded section on Portuguese and insurgent small arms and tactics, and expanded into political and economic history as my knowledge of the conflict grew (in part due to being sent a history of the war in Portuguese by someone who liked my work on Portuguese counterinsurgency formations and tactics). Translating takes more work when you're not fluent in the language! As a general principle I do not author sections in which I do not have sufficient familiarity and education.Dellant (talk) 16:37, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Ballistic Knife

I found your contributions to this article very helpful. However, can you assist with finding sources for the legal history? I'm sure it's out there, but I was hoping you could provide where you learned the facts you put. I did some poking around in FDsys but I have not found a concise source.Legitimus (talk) 20:10, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

I can't find a source at present in my notes, sorry. Some of this was learned from a employee at a cutlery maker's factory on a visit to some knife manufacturers in the Czech Republic. If memory serves me it was MIKOV. I fired these knives a few times myself and the shock of the spring releasing jars the launcher/handle considerably, throwing off the aim. I was told that at least one Czech firm along with OSTBLOCK made some of these knives for the Soviet bloc.Dellant (talk) 20:08, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Saw your edits. Nicely done. You really know your material.Legitimus (talk) 02:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

References

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Feedback

Hello Dellant. I hesitate to give unsolicited feedback, but feel I should.

I'd like to ask why, despite your being an eloquent writer, you seem to continue to ignore some other editors concerns?

I'm referring to your lack of Edit Summaries on your recent contributions, and usage of the 'minor' flag even on edits which are plainly not minor.

If you'd care to reply here, I'll watch the page. Thanks in advance, Trafford09 (talk) 11:13, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

• No excuse, sir. Sometimes I get involved in a section and I just forget to add the summary as I go. On a few occasions I don't add the summary because the site is acting up and any delay can cause a loss of my edit. But that is no excuse either. I will try to add a proper edit summary in future, I promise. Dellant (talk) 20:06, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Something to consider: The is an Editing preference "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" that will help when you forget. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 20:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

• I have changed my editing preferences accordingly, and it is helping. Thanks! Dellant (talk) 01:10, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Much obliged - happy editing. Trafford09 (talk) 01:57, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh - just a thought, which you may care to ponder on: IMHO, when doing vandal-patrol (& I now know you're not one!), I check the History like this of pages on my wp:Watchlist. I look for missing wp:ES as a sign to check an edit. I treat registered users such as your good self with less concern than an IP user. But then, I treat established users (in blue, like User:Jwy) as more trustworthy than 'new' ones (in red, such as [at the moment] is User:Dellant). So, if you put something on the latter page, you'd be blue, not red. For instance, some editors say what their interests are - e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cutlery (for which it's a shame there's no Userbox like

This user is a participant in WikiProject Go.

... ). (See my user page if you're bored or interested!)

Going 'blue' may work to your advantage with users like me, prejudiced by experience if you like. Up to you, of course - just thought you may like to know. Regards, Trafford09 (talk) 11:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article KA-BAR, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. The additions that you made appear to be promotional in nature, and have been removed. Please also make an edit summery so other editors can see what you are doing. See WP:PEACOCK as well to avoid this issue from happening again when you edit wikipedia. Phearson (talk) 00:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

• I've added the sources as requested, complete with edit summaries. How you concluded my additions are 'promotional' in nature I cannot fathom, but they were made in good faith by someone interested in factual accuracy. And it's 'summary', not 'summery"Dellant (talk) 01:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar for helping out on the knife related articles

		The Citation Barnstar
		message Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 22:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, you may want to join the project if you're a knife guy! WP:KNIVES--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 22:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Please check facts

The change to the switchblade article was a correction. The wikipedia article said it was legal to posses in Austria, this is incorrect. They are in fact illegal to posses as in carry upon your person. You may however own one in your home or collect them etc. Correcting a falsehood to a fact is not vandalism.

Also as to your ban message: This IP address is used by all 150,000 customers of Xmission unless they have paid for a static IP. It is a proxy but only in the loosest sense of the word. Roughly 20% of internet connected people in Utah are Xmission customers including all public ap's in SLC. This means everything from someone walking down mainstreet, to kids at the libraries and schools. So blocking this IP would probably not be a good idea unless there was significant vandalism and if that were to happen it would be a good idea to please contact abuse@xmission.com to report it. 198.60.22.10 (talk) 06:15, 26 August 2011 (UTC)